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Former Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday denied allegations in a British television program that Islamic State-inspired extremists were used to carry out suicide bomb attacks in 2019 to create insecurity in the country and help him win election later that year. “To claim that a group of Islamic extremists launched suicide attacks in order to make me president is absurd,” Rajapaksa said in a public statement, his first since being ousted from power in July last year. In the program broadcast Tuesday, Channel 4 interviewed a man who said he arranged a meeting between a local Islamic State-inspired extremist group, National Thowheed Jamath, and a top state intelligence official loyal to Rajapaksa to formulate a plot to create instability and enable Rajapaksa to win the presidential election. ....
The Sri Lankan government plans to establish a parliamentary committee to investigate allegations made in a British television report regarding the country s intelligence agency s involvement in the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings. A man interviewed in the Channel 4 program claimed that he arranged a meeting between an Islamic State-inspired group and a top intelligence official with the intention of creating instability in Sri Lanka to aid Gotabaya Rajapaksa s presidential election campaign. The bombings, carried out by a local group inspired by the Islamic State, resulted in the deaths of 269 people. ....